Ricky Reed (Eric Burton Frederic) Quotes
A lot of what we do in the studio on a day-to-day basis is you try to cast a line as far out as you can out into unknown waters and reel it back in, cut out stuff that isn't working, cut out stuff that isn't connecting to people.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.
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What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry about.
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Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.
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A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.
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Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface on a trip, Marching Band can call and command me to pick up my li'l jerkface.
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She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.
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It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
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I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
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A lot of what we do in the studio on a day-to-day basis is you try to cast a line as far out as you can out into unknown waters and reel it back in, cut out stuff that isn't working, cut out stuff that isn't connecting to people.
